Pocahantus County V.A. Camp Lee oct 6th 1861 Dear sir I seat my self this morning to let you know that I am shering A Reasonable portion of health At this time I hope these few lines may come to hand And find you the same we are wating hear for A movement of some sort or nother our genrel has gone with the most of our army to assist Wise they have had sevrel fights sence our Army has gained the victory evry time they have killed and taken prisners large nos Jackson has whiped them out on cheat mountain we are kep hear on the Acount of sic[hole in page]s [sickness?] we are lisning for A call every day there was only 30 men in our company this morning Able for service our Redgment has done most All the service thats ben done in this Army it has went before all the time we was at Valley Mountain one month before we had Any help when we had our little fight we was in front and center 2 company flanked on the left while our company and the Buncom company flanked on the rite we was kept there 5 days the fire was kept up nearly all the time they fired on us with there cannons throwed Afew burns (?) they done no good we fought there picets 11 miles run them in to there trenches taken som[hole] [some?] provisins some of arms
